Mobile Money in Ethiopia: What we learnt from our expert roundtable
Following a successful launch event for the Central Insights Unit's report on Mobile Money in Ethiopia, this blog shares some crucial takeaways from day's roundtable discussions. The post Mobile Money...
View ArticleThe pivotal role of mobile money agents in driving financial inclusion
For more than a decade agent distribution networks have been at the heart of successful mobile money services. Responsible for converting physical cash to digital value, and performing crucial tasks...
View ArticleDigital identity opportunity in mobile-enabled social benefits programmes
Mobile technologies offer SCT and similar social benefits programmes a way to greatly reduce operational costs, so that donor funds can more effectively reach a larger number of beneficiaries. Here are...
View ArticleSocial commerce: blurring the line between social interaction and online...
The global spread of social media coupled with the rapid growth of e-commerce is giving rise to a new trend where content sharing, messaging and payments converge. Social commerce—the use of social...
View ArticleMaking the connection between mobile money and climate change
Climate change has rapidly become a concern for central banks, financial regulators, and ministries of finance. In September 2017, AFI member institutions formulated the Sharm El Sheikh Accord on...
View ArticleIndonesia’s tech giants and unicorns catapult MSMEs into the digital economy
Merchant payments is one of the more complex use cases of mobile money. Providers need to cater to the differing needs of both customers and merchants. Arguably, digitising payments alone is unlikely...
View ArticleA regulatory model assessment of Payments Banks in India: The story of a...
India’s Payments Banks (PBs) regulatory model has garnered a lot of global attention, partly because of its expected potential to tackle financial exclusion. It has also served as an example for...
View ArticleAddressing the financial needs of women: Ensuring data protection in the use...
The theme of the 2019 AFI Global Policy Forum was Using technology for inclusion of women and youth. The forum, hosted by the National Bank of Rwanda and Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI),...
View ArticleThe GSMA Inclusive Tech Lab launches an industry-leading Interoperability...
Today, the GSMA Inclusive Tech Lab is launching the Interoperability Test Platform, the industry’s first joint test environment combining two key technologies: the GSMA Mobile Money API, a harmonised...
View ArticleFindings from Findex: Mobile money is driving financial inclusion for women,...
This blog explores the changing mobile money gender gap across low- and middle-income countries, based on GSMA’s analysis of the latest 2021 Findex data and previous 2017 data Mobile money continues to...
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